Commander in Brief
AI · Leadership · Strategy — weekly fifteen-minute briefing from Stuart Leo.
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Sony is killing the PlayStation disc — just 15% of sales, but the last thing securing ownership, resale, a price ceiling, and its own antitrust defence.
IKEA's chatbot resolved 47% of contacts. Instead of layoffs, it retrained 8,500 staff into design advisors — a lesson in leading people, not managing them.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI aren't competing on the same axis — each claimed different real estate in the customer's mind. Porter's doors, read through the AI race.
Graham Walker gave $240M to employees with no equity when he sold Fibrebond — and attached a five-year string he told everyone about. A gift, or an exchange?
Bolt's CEO fired his entire HR department and announced the problems disappeared. This piece isn't about whether he was right — it's about the distinction between subtraction and design, and what every operator should ask after reading that headline.
Nike's stock hit a twelve-year low after four years of optimising how they sell while quietly letting what they sell fall behind. The Substance vs. Form tension — at scale.
Toyota's CFO named internal slowness as the cause of three years of decline. The Mastery trap on the Leadership Curve — and how it scales to any business.
Pete Hegseth led with values. The move was textbook — and reveals why AI exposes whether your team's values were ever truly common.
A working definition for the discipline that sits at the intersection of AI, transformation, and SME C-suite operating — and why the existing labels keep missing it.
